Canadian firearms policy and rights

Two range-club volunteers read a legal update together on a laptop in a worn clubhouse.

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Five minutes. Ten pages. Eight interveners.

The Supreme Court admitted eight private interveners to the firearms appeals and dismissed one application. Their role is broad in perspective and narrow in scope.

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I would have said important, too.

Nanos found 88% of Canadians want illegal firearm trafficking in future continental trade talks. Read the exact question before anyone spends that number on a domestic policy claim.

A person photographs an unreadable appointment grid on a laptop in a modest apartment.

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Book now. Downtown Toronto showed a full calendar.

Public Safety tells approved participants to book collection quickly. One assigned downtown Toronto calendar reportedly had no appointment to offer.

A public-land visitor compares a folded map with a gravel road and narrower recreation trail in the Alberta foothills.

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Four hundred metres from the trail tread

In Ghost PLUZ, Alberta's 400-metre trail distance, maintained-road rule, and temporary TransAlta restriction belong to separate map features. The signed restriction notice runs through August 29, 2026.

A retailer employee places an AR-pattern rifle on a padded inventory counter.

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From 12,143 to 74,073 firearms claimed

The 187-business ATIP figure belongs to the first compensation phase. Public Safety's current business total is 74,073 firearms claimed across both periods.

An owner reads a statistical table beside a safely supported air pistol.

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What the gun-crime number is made of

Statistics Canada counted 14,488 firearm-related violent crimes in 2024. One combined category contains 4,548 of them and supplied about half the ten-year rate increase.

A seller checks a buyer's identity beside a cased bolt-action rifle.

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Section 23, from the seller's side of the table

Canada recorded 421,022 reference-number requests in 2025. Firearms Act section 23 puts the request, identity check, and 90-day clock on the seller's side.

Two adults pass a detached sound moderator across a plain rural club counter.

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Britain dropped the moderator variation and kept the licence

Britain stopped recording each sound moderator as a firearm while keeping possession behind a valid certificate. Canada now has a concrete middle ground to answer.

A trainee and coach inspect one target pistol at a quiet firing point.

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BCTSA narrowed the training letter to one handgun

BCTSA's current exemption page generally limits a training-only applicant to one handgun. The federal law supplies no numeric cap.

A fictional licensed owner works at a desktop with an unreadable phone set aside.

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RCMP's 99.01 per cent result ends at received

The CFP met its 35-day application standard 99.01 per cent of the time. That clock ends when the file enters processing.

Two shooters check an unreadable phone together in a quiet range clubhouse.

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Docket 41859: five corrections

A July 28 firearms article turned a federal response into a Court decision. The public docket corrects five claims.

Two club members study statistical printouts in a worn range classroom.

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Seventy-three per cent more RPALs, and the paper found little

Restricted licences grew 72.88 per cent from 2013 to 2019. A new Canadian working paper found little evidence of a strong link with deaths or crime.